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NotePlan for Mac

Task management with Markdown, calendar and notes.

$99.99
In English
Version 3.13.1
3.5
Based on 10 user rates

NotePlan overview

NotePlan is designed to make your task planning more productive. It solves problems like bloated, ever-growing to-do lists.

  • Modern Writing - Enjoy a full writing area with Markdown and injected flavour for productivity.
  • Calendar Notes - A calendar shows you where the action is. Jump right into a day to manage it by writing notes into each day.
  • Backlog Notes - Save away your backlogs and general notes behind the daily planning and apart from the calendar.
Features
  • Full, modern writing tool included for every day of a month - NotePlan will give you the convenience of a modern writing editor supporting markdown. Add formatting to your task lists and notes to keep it better organized.
  • Monthly calendar overview with color-coded daily note content - See a summary of your notes and color coded lists in a monthly calendar view. Use keyboard shortcuts to navigate and quickly jump into a day to review or edit it. The calendar will also show you, if you missed out on some tasks, so nothing important slips from your mind.
  • Schedule tasks to stay organized - If you couldn't finish a task, don't leave it unmanaged on the list. Re-schedule it to another day. Or, if you manage a backlog, schedule a todo directly from there onto your calendar.
  • Backlogs, drafts, bug lists or just text notes, apart from the calendar - Some information is not related to a day and should be kept separated from the calendar. Like bug lists or project backlogs. They can be managed in NotePlan and scheduled directly into the calendar, when required. Notes can be organized by tagging them. In the overview you can filter your notes by tags.
  • Your notes are not saved on our servers. You will find them safe and sound in your iCloud Drive.
  • Integrations to useful apps like iCalender, Reminders, and more are available.

What’s new in version 3.13.1

The new Shortcuts actions let you capture things and send them to NotePlan with just a tap, a Siri command, or the Action button. They come with lots of options and integrate with other shortcuts, too.

  • ️Easy Access to Your Shortcuts
  • Example Shortcuts
What Else is Improved?
  • Tasks in templates are now filtered out in the references area.
  • Better attachment downloads. If an attachment fails to download, NotePlan will retry to reduce sync issues with embedded files and images.
  • Renaming a hashtag with an emoji no longer causes an issue.
  • Fixed an issue with the new iPad M4 where tasks were completed when hovering over them with the cursor.

Full list of changes available here

NotePlan for Mac

$99.99
In English
Version 3.13.1

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3.5

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Michael-Vilain
Michael-Vilain
Jul 22 2024
3.13.1
0.0
Jul 22 2024
0.0
Version: 3.13.1
There are so so many other options. Beaver-Note is open source and offers the same features, is multi-platform, and their cloud sync is cheaper. I use Joplin, also the features. YMMV.
Gazman
Gazman
Jan 25 2023
2.4.6
5.0
Jan 25 2023
5.0
Version: 2.4.6
It doesn't look like MacUpdate has been keeping this app up to date. It's now up to version 3.8 and is still actively developed. Version 3 is a big upgrade (in terms of functionality and price, now being a subscription), but I couldn't live without it.
Gazman
Gazman
Jan 10 2020
2.2
5.0
Jan 10 2020
5.0
Version: 2.2
With the new 'markdown live rendering' (i.e. you see rich text, not markdown even though that's what it's using), this great task management app has become even more user-friendly. The same markdown rendering is also now live on the iPhone/iPad apps as well.
Funjoy
Funjoy
Aug 12 2019
2.0.16
4.5
Aug 12 2019
4.5
Version: 2.0.16
Solid app, regularly updated. Bought this a few months ago and am slowly migrating my Todoist tasks to it.
Gazman
Gazman
May 23 2019
2.0.10
5.0
May 23 2019
5.0
Version: 2.0.10
This is a great app for getting my tasks down and then organising them. Uses markdown as well as the built-in Reminders and Calendar across Mac and iOS
Simon3
Simon3
Feb 3 2024
3.9.12
1.0
Feb 3 2024
1.0
Version: 3.9.12
mo dape
mo dape
Oct 27 2023
3.9.8
1.0
Oct 27 2023
1.0
Version: 3.9.8
Nicksloan
Nicksloan
Jan 26 2023
3.8
5.0
Jan 26 2023
5.0
Version: 3.8
ledragonceleste
ledragonceleste
Jan 26 2023
3.8
3.0
Jan 26 2023
3.0
Version: 3.8
Gazman
Gazman
Jan 10 2020
5.0
Jan 10 2020
5.0
Version: null
Funjoy
Funjoy
Aug 12 2019
4.5
Aug 12 2019
4.5
Version: null
Ordenador
Ordenador
Apr 6 2019
5.0
Apr 6 2019
5.0
Version: null
emerywehitney
emerywehitney
Feb 17 2018
4.5
Feb 17 2018
4.5
Version: null
Joel-Wolfe
Joel-Wolfe
Jul 5 2017
5.0
Jul 5 2017
5.0
Version: null
Bryan
Bryan
Jan 9 2017
4.0
Jan 9 2017
4.0
Version: null